literally my favorite thing in the brick
#i feel like #(and note that i am only nearing the end of fantine in the brick so i’m just basing this on this quote and a few others i have read) #i feel like part of why grantaire loves enjolras so much is that he reminds him of who he used to be #i feel like he wasn’t always a cynic #once he was an idealist who believed in love and art and feedom #but he was ugly and no one would love him #and he found himself loving beautiful men who in turn loved beautiful women #and he was taught by his father and the world that he did not deserve love #and so he starts to drink #at first he drinks to drown his pain #and then he drinks to drown in his pain #like marmaladov ‘i drink that i may suffer twice as much’ #for that is what he deserves #and then he meets a beautiful man in love with not a beautiful woman but a beautiful future #a man who loves everyone yet lacks one single person to love only him #so grantaire will love him #that this sun god might not darken #that the cruel world might not kill this prince of the people #that he may not be crushed as grantaire was crushed #that he may live to understand only love and liberty